Julian Assange also spoke at length about Bradley Manning, the US private accused of supplying WikiLeaks with hundreds of sensitive diplomatic and military cables. Assange accused the US government of detaining Manning without charge and mistreating him, even attempting to offer him a deal in exchange for Manning‘s testimony against Assange. The WikiLeaks founder told the UN panel that Bradley Manning, accused of ‚death penalty crimes‘, was „degraded, abused and psychologically tortured.“